The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-13
DENIZENS OF DALLAS
Portrayed by Betsy Hamilton,
Late from Texas.
THE HEATHEN CHINEE AND HIS QUEUE.

| "HMLABEE," Talladega County, Ala, Aug
| ust, 1887.In Dallas City Their pears 10 lie
| folks from eyerwhars all over the world, and
| some OF EN- looks mighty curious and talks
| an dresses mighty funny. ! believe Inc ana
| ousin Pink thought tie Chinese was the fun
| niest, kase they dress SO different from any
| body else-with ther heads shaved on top and
| long cue hangin' down Their back big loose
| pantaloons, white Jacket hangin' long down
| over ther pants like o -four sack, little round
| cap on the top Of ther heads and tan slippers
| like Indian moccasins on thcr feet-that'S the
| way they all dress, and it makes EN- look like
| twin brothers,
He's got dark, dirt-eatin' lookin' skin-little
| black, oblong eyes.
| You see en on the back streets next to lit
| tie fruit stores in little cuddy Of room hard
| ly big enough to turn around i'll, ironin' collars
and cuffs pretty and white sleek enough to see
| your face in, and that's the way the most Of
| 'em makes ther Twin. Some families hires 'em
| to cook-as fur me druther have a niger.
They take great pride III havin' that long plat
OF hair on the back Of tlieir heads and wien it
| is cut off they feel diseraced.
man was tellin' about seeing Chinaman
when he was gwine to Colorado. lie
lowed the poor Teller was by
his SET didn't have none Of his folks with him,
and he hadn't been to this country long, and
couldn understand nothin you said and you
couldn't understand him. lie went to sleep on
the train and wasn't pesterin nobody, and a
passe Of devilish cowboys turned in and cut
OF his cue, and when he walked up and found
his cue gone he cried and walled and tuck on
enough to break body's heart to look at him.
The boys laughed, but it was anything but
fun TO the Chinaman, he was all broke up;
poor Teller hid his face and wouldn't look no.
body. The man said when he looked at him
| he couldn't keep back the tears, he never was
as sorry for anybody in his life, and he felt
| like pitclIin into them cowboys and whpuin
| out the whole gang, but they was all armed
| with bowie knives and pistols; they was a
| wild, terrible set 1T would have been like
sticlin Of your head in the fire to say a word
to any one Of 'cm. The poor Chnaman went
off and wouldn't 90 back to his folks, didn't
want nobody to sec That had ever knowed him
before.
The Chinese don't only dress and talk diff
erent from our folks, but they have curious
names, such as Wo Lee, Yung Sin, Lo Hop
Sam Sing and Chin Chou.
You see the Indian, the italian, and the
Mexican in Dallas, too, and they all got power
full dark skin and black hair To BODY that
never saw none of the folks, any one of EN- is
a curiosity.
The Italian mostly goes around with a hand
organ and monkey; they are mighty lazy and
dirty; don't mind kissin the monkey the
monkey don't have no choice-it's kiss his
master or git whippn.
They don't have no home; they lay around
the streets and live by the nickels the chillm
gives the poor, little, cowardly monkey The
Mexican sells "hot tomollies" and "chille-Can-
carni." He has a basket and q lamp on the
street corners. The lamp is to keep the tomol-
| lies hot. You don't know what hot toinolly
is? It's some kind Of meat all ground up fine
and full Of rcd pepper. That's why they call il
| hot--it's so full Of pepper. They make mush
OF corn meal, filled with grease, and rol! the
meat in it in ShuCk about the size of your
| two fingers, and sell six for nickle.
About sundown and after night seems to be
! their time to holler Hot tomollcs hot to-
| molhes!" and over little hongry newsboy
| that's got ncle buys some and greascs up
| his dirty little face from year 10 year. You
| don't know what kind Of meat it's made Of
| list as apt to be dog or cat as anything else.
| The "chilH-cau-caini' is sortcr like the "hot
| tomolly" only it's got beans and onions in it,
| and they dish it out like hash.
| There was a Mexican and his wife had lit
| tie fruit and candy stand away out on Elm
| street. II we'uns didn't stop he'd run ont and
| hail us, jabhern' hard as ever he could. rsee
my fine bO-nanHy til-li-ty cents; dis, all dis
| bunch ti-ti-ty conts-cheap. You no buy 'em
| tomorrow-all gone" ASK him his name
my name W'Savior Montana; my wife, She
| name Roena," he would say every time and
| grin and look at Roena so pleased, who was so
deaf She didn't hear a word. He was alters in
| good hunor, and didn't see for the life of
me how he could be so happy in so much dirt
and flies That part of the street swarms in
flies. They cut Watermelon and in minute
you cant hardly see the color of it for the
flies.
But them Mexicans didn't keer.
The Indians comes over thar from the In
dian territory. Some of em sells bead work
blow guns, bows and arrows and moccasin
slippers, and sometimes they comes with the
COW boys to buy and sell cattle.
| saw one from the Cherokee nation, and he
talked so funny wrote down what he said
(When he says "he' one "lnjun" no means
himsclf)
HOW THE INDIAN TALKED.
'lnjun he tell EN- white man mtbbe $500
Dallas sell EN- cattles, mubbe so he buy EN-
cuttles Dallas, He stop railroad Dallas. He
60 big house hotel Grand; Grand Windsor.)
just all de time look, walk, he no find en-